CO - Tom Clements, 58, DOC director, Monument, 19 March 2013

[Footwarrior]

The authorities should be looking for fingerprint or DNA evidence in the suspect's car and items found inside it. Those who helped him acquire a firearm or bomb supplies could be charged as conspirators in his crimes.

 

[colette]

LE thinks Ebel posed as a pizza delivery guy to get DOC director Clements to open his door. (from Lois Lane's link above)

So he ordered a pizza then kills the delivery man to pose as a lost delivery guy or someone delivering pizza to the home in order to kill.

 

[Lois Lane]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - Police have arrested a 22-year-old Commerce City woman for allegedly illegally transferring the firearm recovered in Texas that was identified as the weapon used in the shooting death of Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements.

Stevie Marie Vigil, 22, was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of an alleged illegal transfer of a firearm in early March. The arrest was based on information developed during the course of the investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation; the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Englewood Police Department; and the Denver Police Department.

More at the link: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/03/...ving-evan-ebel-gun-used-to-kill-tom-clements/

 

[Lois Lane]

Memorial Service Wednesday For Slain Pizza Delivery Man

A loving, hard-working husband and father was remembered in a memorial service Wednesday morning in Lafayette, Colo.

Nathan Leon, 27, disappeared March 17 while delivering pizzas to a truck stop in Golden, Colo. His body was found six hours later, riddled with gunshot wounds.

Leon's family says he delivered pizzas to support his wife and three daughters.

http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/...y-For-Slain-Pizza-Delivery-Man-200241131.html

 

[Lois Lane]

Hundreds mourn slain pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon

Leon's father, John Leon, remembered raising a kid whose favorite snack was cherry tomatoes, who had a passion for snowboarding and an ear for and love of music.

And he asked that his son be remembered for those and many other qualities, "not as a pizza delivery guy who got murdered."

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...zza-delivery-driver-nathan-leon#ixzz2Oo1eQaHV

 

[Lois Lane]

Special Series on the 211s.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22878610/crew-211-leader-formed-gang-protect-white-prisoners

Part Two here:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2...lation-cells-cant-handcuff-leaders?source=pkg

 

[Lois Lane]

Official: Colo. suspect had tracking device

The 28-year-old convict suspected of shooting to death Colorado's prison chief left prison wearing an ankle bracelet tracking device when he was paroled, according to a Colorado law enforcement official who has examined Evan Ebel's prison case file.

While that new detail emerged Thursday, a 22-year-old woman police say is connected to the case appeared in court.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/official-colo-suspect-had-tracking-device/

The Commerce City woman accused of buying the gun that authorities say was used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements made her first court appearance on Thursday.

Arapahoe County Judge Alex Bencze decided to keep Stevie Marie Vigil's bond at $25,000. He set her preliminary hearing for April 30.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...appearance-woman-accused-buying#ixzz2Orb25uml

Interesting photo of Vigil's attorney at the Denver Post link. Here's the caption:

Attorney, Normando Pacheco, tries to hide his face March, 28, 2013 at the courthouse in Arapahoe County. He declined to comment after the short hearing for the woman accused of buying the gun that authorities say was used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements. (THE DENVER POST | RJ Sangosti)

Also at the Denver Post:

From a young age, no one could tame Evan Ebel

DENVER—From a young age, no one could tame Evan Spencer Ebel.

His parents sent him to special camps in Utah, Jamaica and Samoa for children with behavioral problems. Neighbors in the middle-class suburbs west of Denver shied away from a kid they described as "a handful."

By age 20, state prison had become Ebel's home. There, he joined a white supremacist gang and ended up in solitary confinement, a place his parents believe soon began to eat away at his already troubled mind.

On Jan. 28, when his term was up, Ebel was set free.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22888998/from-young-age-no-one-could-tame-evan?source=pkg

 

[Lois Lane]

From the Associated Press:

It's not clear how Vigil and Ebel knew each other.

Most documents in the case have been sealed, including an arrest affidavit that details the events leading to Virgil's arrest. Unlike other states, the sealing of court records [in Colorado] is increasingly common in high profile cases that are under investigation.

http://triblive.com/news/editorspicks/3746113-74/vigil-gun-ebel#ixzz2OrogtyBM

 

[Lois Lane]

CNN via WDSU:

Even as a teenager, Ebel's behavior suggested he was interested in white supremacy, said Kurt Frey, who knew Ebel from a boot-camp-type program in Samoa.

"He was very proud of his Sicilian heritage, and he always talked about wanting to kill so many people that he'd make Hitler jealous," Frey told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."

"He really was racist, but at the same time he did hang around with African-Americans at the camp. So it was very contradictory."

Read more: http://www.wdsu.com/news/national/A...19500766/-/b924gmz/-/index.html#ixzz2OrpVjLkE

 

[tezi]

Ebel Released 115 Days Early Due to Change in Colorado Law.

Evan Ebel, the man suspected of killing Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, probably would still be behind bars were it not for a law approved by legislators and Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2011.
The law, which had the approval of Clements himself, allowed inmates such as Ebel to earn time off their sentences for the months and years they had spent in administrative segregation, commonly known as solitary confinement.


http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...-prison-early-thanks-2011-colorado?source=pkg

http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=drJey4bd8r3PGFab7jrHtB&u=Denverpost
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[Lois Lane]

Direct link to Colorado DOC release re Evan Ebel incarceration history:

http://www.doc.state.co.us/sites/default/files/EvanEbelInfoRelease_2.pdf

Via this Denver Post article:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...case-suspect-ebel-tried-kill-guard?source=pkg

 

[Lois Lane]

A "straw gun purchase" on behalf of a felon seemed out of character for Vigil, who was in college studying nursing, said her aunt Francis Gurule. Vigil has no criminal history, according to CBI records.

"She's always been a good girl," said Gurule, who was "speechless" upon hearing the news. "I couldn't believe it."

But, Gurule said, she lost touch with her niece about a year ago. Relatives closer to Vigil, including her sister, said they didn't want to get wrapped up in the "drama" by talking about her case.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...appearance-woman-accused-buying#ixzz2Ow7O5GCS

 

[Lois Lane]

The woman accused of buying the gun used to kill Colorado's corrections chief knew the shooting suspect for years, and the two had been hanging out after he was released from prison, according to her cousin.

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/285800/166/Cousin-Gun-buyer-knew-Evan-Ebel-for-years

 

[Footwarrior]

:furious:

I find it hard to have any sympathy for a woman who buys a handgun for a guy who is wearing a tracking device on his ankle. Give her the maximum 10 year sentence and put her face on posters in gun stores as a warning to others.

:jail:

 

[Portabella]

http://www.9news.com/news/article/327288/339/Ebel-may-have-been-released-too-early

Looks like due to a clerical error Ebel was released four years too early, if this turns out to be true... heads are going to roll....

I would hate to be the one who typed the wrong word concurrent/ consecutive, I would have to live with knowing this cost people their lives.... so sad on so many levels...IMHO

 

[Lois Lane]

7NEWS has confirmed the man accused of killing Colorado's prison chief should still be in prison, based on a plea agreement filed in Fremont County

7NEWS reporter Marc Stewart talked to District Attorney Thom LeDoux who said he saw the plea agreement that shows Evan Ebel was supposed to serve four additional years in prison, but for some unknown reason that did not happen.

7NEWS also learned the Department of corrections issued an arrest warrant on March 20 -- the day after Colorado prison chief Tom Clements was shot to death at his Monument home but before Ebel was named a suspect in his murder.

Those warrants are often issued when a parolee gets out of his GPS monitoring bracelet.

Ebel was on intensive supervised parole which means not only electronic monitoring but also daily call-ins, a curfew and no driving or drinking alcohol.

More at the link: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...ebel-should-have-served-consecutive-sentences

 

[Lois Lane]

The DOC document doesn’t specify why the arrest warrant was issued on the March 20, but does show Ebel was in the Intensive Supervision Parole Program. According to the Colorado Department of Corrections, that program is for high-risk or high-needs offenders who "present increased risk for the community."

The details of Ebel's specific program weren't clear, but the DOC says such paroles may include electronic monitoring, a daily call-in system and global positioning satellite tracking systems.

A Dec. 14, 2012 parole assessment rated Ebel as a "very high risk" for returning to prison, giving him "recidivism odds" of two out of three.

Ebel's parole conditions prohibited him having contact with gang members, his victim, from driving, using alcohol or going to bars.

Intensive Supervised Parole is only imposed on about sixteen percent of paroled convicts.

More at the link: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...-ebel-just-hours-after-murder-of-tom-clements

 

[Lois Lane]

Court apologizes for error that led to Evan Ebel's early release

A district court on Monday apologized for a clerical error that resulted in the release of Evan Ebel four years too soon and said it would review its practices to avoid another mistake.

The mistake allowed Ebel to be released from prison on Jan. 28 without serving any additional time for a 2008 conviction for assaulting a prison guard, despite the terms of a plea agreement.

The April 2008 agreement called for Ebel to serve a consecutive prison term of four years — after completing an eight-year stint — for slipping out of handcuffs and punching the corrections officer on Nov. 27, 2006.

"Because the judge did not expressly state that the sentence was consecutive, the court judicial assistant did not include that term in the mittimus, the sentence order that went to the Department of Corrections," 11th Judicial District Administrator Walter Blair wrote in a statement. "The court regrets this oversight and extends condolences to the families of Mr. Nathan Leon and Mr. Tom Clements."

More at the link:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...error-that-led-evan-ebels-early#ixzz2PGHVoNt6

 

[fran]

Unbelievable!

They released him by mistake and now a man is dead.

Wow!
fran

 

[jjenny]

Two men dead. He is a suspect in two murders.